Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures, infographics, images and tables
- List of abbreviations
- About the authors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction: A tale of three prisoners
- 1 Where does Islam come from and who are Muslim prisoners?
- 2 What is Islam in prison?
- 3 Finding their faith: why do prisoners choose Islam?
- 4 What types of Islam do prisoners follow?
- 5 Mainstream Islam in prison
- 6 Islamism and Islamist Extremism in prison
- 7 The lives of Muslim prisoners: opportunities and risks
- 8 Caring for Muslim prisoners: Muslim prison chaplaincy
- 9 Managing Muslim prisoners: treading a middle path between naïvety and suspicion
- Conclusion: The Virtuous Cycle of Rehabilitation and Avoiding the Vicious Cycle of Extremism
- Appendix 1 Theoretical framework
- Appendix 2 Methodology
- Appendix 3 Ethics, recruitment, data analysis and data management
- Appendix 4 Descriptions of our research prisons
- Appendix 5 How UCIP ascertained the Worldviews of Muslim prisoners
- Glossary of key terms and important names
- References
- Index
Appendix 5 - How UCIP ascertained the Worldviews of Muslim prisoners
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 June 2023
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures, infographics, images and tables
- List of abbreviations
- About the authors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction: A tale of three prisoners
- 1 Where does Islam come from and who are Muslim prisoners?
- 2 What is Islam in prison?
- 3 Finding their faith: why do prisoners choose Islam?
- 4 What types of Islam do prisoners follow?
- 5 Mainstream Islam in prison
- 6 Islamism and Islamist Extremism in prison
- 7 The lives of Muslim prisoners: opportunities and risks
- 8 Caring for Muslim prisoners: Muslim prison chaplaincy
- 9 Managing Muslim prisoners: treading a middle path between naïvety and suspicion
- Conclusion: The Virtuous Cycle of Rehabilitation and Avoiding the Vicious Cycle of Extremism
- Appendix 1 Theoretical framework
- Appendix 2 Methodology
- Appendix 3 Ethics, recruitment, data analysis and data management
- Appendix 4 Descriptions of our research prisons
- Appendix 5 How UCIP ascertained the Worldviews of Muslim prisoners
- Glossary of key terms and important names
- References
- Index
Summary
Our calculation of prisoners’ Worldviews was driven both by the theoretical categories and substantiated by the testimony of prisoners themselves.
First, we conducted 15 pilot interviews to check that our Worldview categories mapped onto Worldviews of Muslim prisoners, which broadly speaking they did.
Then, out of the interviews we constructed variables as part of our Attitudinal Questionnaires to test for and measure the categories. The following statements individually tested attitudes towards key traits associated with the different Worldviews:
• It is part of Islam to treat Muslims more fairly than non-Muslims. This was a test for a commitment to a Qur’anic belief in basic human equality as a core component of Mainstream Islam.
• I avoid prisoners who are not Muslim. This was a test for sympathy with Islamist Extremist Doctrines of Loyalty & Disavowal (see Chapter 6).
• Islam teaches that wisdom can be found in many religions. This was a test for religious pluralism and inclusivity as mandated in The Qur’an.
• Islam teaches that I must follow the law of this country. This was a test for an Islamic commitment to lawfulness.
• Islam teaches that the laws of this country should be replaced by Sharia Law. This was a test for Islamism and the desire to replace existing legal structures with Sharia Law.
• Islam teaches me that human life is sacred. This was a test for commitment to the sanctity of life as a core component of Mainstream Islam. Either to ‘mainly disagree’ or ‘strongly disagree’ with this variable was one indicator of extremism.
From answers to these questions, we combined the scores and calculated the mean response in order to develop a Worldview scale from 1 = Violent Islamist Extremism to 5 = Mainstream Islam.
No variable was used singularly to represent a Worldview, except
• It is part of Islam to change things that are unfair in society.
This was used as a test for Activist Islam.
The questions contained both negative and positive statements in order to avoid acquiescence bias.
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- Islam in PrisonFinding Faith, Freedom and Fraternity, pp. 265 - 266Publisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2022